Fanaticism
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the life purpose must be jealously guarded from the temptation to seek for easy and transient attainment; likewise must it be so fostered as to become immune to the disastrous threats of fanaticism. 160:3.5
doctrinal fetish will lead mortal man to betray himself into the clutches of bigotry, fanaticism, superstition, intolerance, and the most atrocious of barbarous cruelties. 88:2.7
overmuch sympathy and pity may degenerate into serious emotional instability; that enthusiasm may drive on into fanaticism 149:4.3
strong spiritual faith so many times leads directly to disastrous fanaticism, to exaggeration of the religious ego 196:0.6-7
we must prevent religious fanaticism by scientific mental attitude 99:3.14
spiritual revelation often so blinds the creature as to precipitate a convulsion of fanaticism or to initiate some other intellectual upheaval which results disastrously. 110:4.5
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